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Re: Computer theft 1971

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On Sun, 8 May 2016 20:56:11 -0400
Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 8 May 2016, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 7 May 2016 12:47:57 -0700 (PDT)
> > hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> >
> >> For the life of me, I can't understand why email software allows
> >> the automatic execution of an attached program merely upon the
> >> opening of an email.  This has allowed innumerable security breaches,
> >> especially since saboteurs raid address books to find email accounts,
> >> so the email looks legitimate.
> >
> > 	I recall telling people that the rumour of a virus that spread
> > by email was nonesense because in order for anything in an email to be
> > executed you would have to save it and run it, so as long as you weren't
> > daft enough to do that with an unexpected email attachment nothing could
> > happen.
> >
> Was that "the good times virus"?  After I got online to stay in late
> 1994, suddenly there was "the good times virus".  But it wasn't, it was a 
> warning about a virus that didn't exist.

	That was the one.

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Computer theft 1971 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-05-07 12:47 -0700
  Re: Computer theft 1971 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-05-07 20:59 +0000
  Re: Computer theft 1971 "Simo" <dhy287@gmail.com> - 2016-05-08 07:01 +1000
  Re: Computer theft 1971 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-05-07 21:26 +0000
    Re: Computer theft 1971 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-08 06:08 +0100
      Re: Computer theft 1971 Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-05-08 08:35 +0000
  Re: Computer theft 1971 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-08 02:02 -0300
    Re: Computer theft 1971 Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-05-08 11:08 -0400
      Re: Computer theft 1971 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-08 16:04 -0300
        Re: Computer theft 1971 Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-05-08 17:46 -0400
    Re: Computer theft 1971 Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2016-05-09 14:33 -0400
  Re: Computer theft 1971 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-08 06:07 +0100
    Re: Computer theft 1971 Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-08 20:56 -0400
      Re: Computer theft 1971 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-09 06:06 +0100
    Re: Computer theft 1971 Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-05-16 20:15 -0400
      Re: Computer theft 1971 jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-17 12:32 +0000
      Re: Computer theft 1971 Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-05-23 12:36 -0400
        Re: Computer theft 1971 Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2016-05-23 16:40 -0400
        Re: Computer theft 1971 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-23 21:40 +0100
  Re: Computer theft 1971 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-05-16 18:30 -0700

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